Historical Marker
Plank Road House
Historical marker location:
Great Valley, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Salamanca-Sugartown Road (New York State Route 98) and Humphrey Road, on the right when traveling north on Salamanca-Sugartown Road.)
Marker installed: 2015
The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.